The history of the future : images of the 21st century /
Canto, Christophe,
The history of the future : images of the 21st century / Christophe Canto, Odile Faliu ; translated by Francis Cowper. - 159 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157).
Preface -- Introduction: The future as history -- The Hidden Years -- The Travellers -- The Age of Revolution -- The Scientific Novel -- Thinking of the Future -- A Popular Current -- Amazing Stories -- Prediction in the Hands of Humorists -- The Closed World of the Utopias -- Kaleidoscope -- The Game of Conjecture -- A Panorama of the Future -- Fictional Chronologies -- Historical Reference Points -- A Science Fiction Emporium -- Temporary Filters -- One Mile High -- Evening Comes -- In the rear-view mirror -- Diorama of War -- To the Slaughterhouse -- Operation Danger -- Universal Energy -- Leisure a Go-Go -- Death to Books -- An Ideal Society -- The March of the Suffragettes -- No Pedestrian Right of Way -- Shivers -- An ordinary day in the year 2000 -- A Life of Ease -- Extrapolation: Bold Deductions -- Catalogue of the Future -- Operating Instructions for the Future -- Futurist Cliches -- A world of gears and cogs -- Slaves of Steel -- The Original Function -- Amazing Things -- Cross-sections and Descriptions -- Ex Machina -- Portable Pipe Dreams -- A Hellish Logic -- Reproduction Code -- The Machine-World -- Robots and Co. -- The Laws -- Exegesis -- The geometry of the future -- Buzzing Aerocabs -- An Enormous Garden -- Cement, Steel and Clouds -- Cubic Zoning -- Space -- Under the Dome -- Structures Built of Greenish Borazon -- Fear -- Theatre of Horror -- Evil -- Mad Scientists -- Creatures from Elsewhere -- A Litany of Disasters -- They Are Among Us -- A Taylorisation of Time -- Guinea Pigs in Test Tubes -- Psychological Surgery -- Underground Deviants -- Stellar epilogue -- Colonisers of Space -- Time out of Joint -- Contact -- Life Under the Domes -- Intergalactic University -- Endgame Scenarios -- Silence Reigns -- The Extinction of the Sun -- The Day After the End of the World -- The Last Man -- Fuel for the Stars -- Very Far Away -- Wake me in a thousand years from now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations. Ch. 0. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5.
2080135449 9782080135445
94214221
Twenty-first century--Forecasts
CB161 / .C3513 1993
303.490905
The history of the future : images of the 21st century / Christophe Canto, Odile Faliu ; translated by Francis Cowper. - 159 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 32 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157).
Preface -- Introduction: The future as history -- The Hidden Years -- The Travellers -- The Age of Revolution -- The Scientific Novel -- Thinking of the Future -- A Popular Current -- Amazing Stories -- Prediction in the Hands of Humorists -- The Closed World of the Utopias -- Kaleidoscope -- The Game of Conjecture -- A Panorama of the Future -- Fictional Chronologies -- Historical Reference Points -- A Science Fiction Emporium -- Temporary Filters -- One Mile High -- Evening Comes -- In the rear-view mirror -- Diorama of War -- To the Slaughterhouse -- Operation Danger -- Universal Energy -- Leisure a Go-Go -- Death to Books -- An Ideal Society -- The March of the Suffragettes -- No Pedestrian Right of Way -- Shivers -- An ordinary day in the year 2000 -- A Life of Ease -- Extrapolation: Bold Deductions -- Catalogue of the Future -- Operating Instructions for the Future -- Futurist Cliches -- A world of gears and cogs -- Slaves of Steel -- The Original Function -- Amazing Things -- Cross-sections and Descriptions -- Ex Machina -- Portable Pipe Dreams -- A Hellish Logic -- Reproduction Code -- The Machine-World -- Robots and Co. -- The Laws -- Exegesis -- The geometry of the future -- Buzzing Aerocabs -- An Enormous Garden -- Cement, Steel and Clouds -- Cubic Zoning -- Space -- Under the Dome -- Structures Built of Greenish Borazon -- Fear -- Theatre of Horror -- Evil -- Mad Scientists -- Creatures from Elsewhere -- A Litany of Disasters -- They Are Among Us -- A Taylorisation of Time -- Guinea Pigs in Test Tubes -- Psychological Surgery -- Underground Deviants -- Stellar epilogue -- Colonisers of Space -- Time out of Joint -- Contact -- Life Under the Domes -- Intergalactic University -- Endgame Scenarios -- Silence Reigns -- The Extinction of the Sun -- The Day After the End of the World -- The Last Man -- Fuel for the Stars -- Very Far Away -- Wake me in a thousand years from now -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of illustrations. Ch. 0. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5.
2080135449 9782080135445
94214221
Twenty-first century--Forecasts
CB161 / .C3513 1993
303.490905